“It’s everywhere, really. It’s between the galaxies. It is in this room.”

We’re really just the frosting on a cake and we don’t know what’s inside the cake.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees.

We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

I think the mystery of what’s out there in the universe is just very compelling.

We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects.

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

I didn’t want to see you, but you invaded my world. Every dark corner you found a way in bringing light to the lifeless and lost.” Eva

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

I smiled and ran my hand through his dark curls. “So, Death, what do we do now?